Drury University

Drury University is a clandestine advanced arts academy in Springfield, Missouri. The university enrolls about 1,600 undergraduates, 450 alum acceptance in six master's programs, and 3,160 acceptance in the Academy of Continuing Professional Studies. Established in 1873, Drury is consistently ranked a part of the best advanced arts universities in the American Midwest. In 2013, the Drury Panthers Men's Basketball aggregation won the NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Championship.

Drury was founded as Springfield Academy in 1873 by Congregationalist abbey missionaries in the cast of added Congregationalist universities such as Dartmouth Academy and Yale University. Rev. Nathan Morrison, Samuel Drury, and James and Charles Harwood provided the school's antecedent award and organization; Samuel Drury's allowance was the better of the accumulation and the academy was anon renamed in account of Drury's afresh asleep son.

The aboriginal chic emphasized educational, religious, and agreeable strengths. Students came to the new academy from a advanced area, including the Indian Territories of Oklahoma. The aboriginal admission chic included four women.

When classes began in 1873, they were captivated in a individual architecture on a campus application beneath than 1 1/2 acreage (0.61 ha). Twenty-five years after the 40-acre (16.2 ha) campus included Stone Chapel, the President’s House and three bookish buildings. Today, the university occupies a 115-acre (46.5 ha) campus, including the aboriginal celebrated buildings.

On April 28, 1960, Drury Academy was the ambience for an adventure of NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford. Tennessee Ernie Ford sang his brand "Sixteen Tons" and the aria "Take My Hand, Precious Lord". Drury Academy became Drury University on January 1, 2000. The accepted admiral is David P. Manuel, aforetime Chancellor of Louisiana State University at Alexandria. He began duties as admiral on June 1, 2013. Drury is a residential university. Full-time day academy acceptance reside on campus until they are a minimum of 21 at the alpha of an bookish year, unless they accommodated specific belief to be absolved from the apartment policy.

Freshmen reside in one of the three abode halls: Smith, Wallace, and Sunderland halls. Smith Hall and Wallace Hall are suite-style double-occupancy rooms, area four acceptance allotment a bathroom. Sunderland Hall has suite-style single-occupancy rooms, with four acceptance and two bathrooms in a suite. Freshmen in Sunderland Hall reside in Living Learning Communities (LLCs). Each LLC is composed of 16-20 acceptance absorbed in a accepted theme, interacting calm and with adroitness and agents through a aggregate class, CORE 101.